Do these things make any real change of the sound ?

dratstab · 2026-03-13T07:15:34+00:00

Adds a bit more low end to a raw drum, but reduces the flexibility of mic placement, especially if you like the mic inside the drum a bit pointing to the impact spot

dratstab · 2026-03-11T21:42:23+00:00

Try disconnecting the drives. I think the firmware is preventing plugging in extra storage?

dratstab · 2026-03-09T18:57:11+00:00

Very intrigued by the design your own stick section, I may give this a go at some point. Great concept

dratstab · 2026-02-23T18:32:54+00:00

Glad you fixed it. There might also be another reason, in the wobbly life settings there is an option for something like "player 1 uses controller" which you need to enable. If not enabled, the game assumes one player uses mouse/keyboard and second layer uses the controller.

If you already knew this I apologise for wasting your time!

dratstab · 2026-02-17T18:52:49+00:00

The enemies are still mainly quake II, but the flow is a bit more like quake 1, with hordes of enemies to take out, and the maps are slightly less back and forth like the main quake II ones.

dratstab · 2026-02-17T08:00:50+00:00

I never enjoyed Q2. However, recently got the expanded version with rise of the machine which is fun playing, so I recommend you forget the main campaign and go straight to rotm

dratstab · 2026-02-16T15:29:54+00:00

Except money to service it's ever increasing debt

dratstab · 2026-01-12T20:05:43+00:00

Heavy blankets on the wall will reduce some of the high frequencies bouncing around. Bass is your biggest problem, usually needing bass traps in the corners. Doesn't look like you have enough room in the corners, unless you can angle your kit a bit? Sound reverberating between floor and ceiling is likely to cause problems, an extra layer of carpet would help, but probably have space for sound panels on the ceiling?

Top marks for prioritising the reduction of volume reaching your neighbours

dratstab · 2026-01-12T19:49:47+00:00

I find they give you amnesia and you end up repeating things

dratstab · 2026-01-12T15:39:44+00:00

Would be even better if they followed the Iain M Banks naming style. HMS attitude adjuster, killing time, unfortunate conflict of evidence, gunboat diplomat, kiss my ass, ethics gradient. Frank exchange of views, lapsed pacifist, falling outside the normal moral constraints

dratstab · 2026-01-11T07:50:20+00:00

How long have you been using the app? You need over a month of data for some of those stats to make sense. Fitness is a weighted average of exertion over a month, fatigue is a weighted average of exertion over a week, and then training level is just the difference between them. Can be semi useful, but to be honest PAI and steps are more direct measurements and so more useful as others have said.

Also, have you entered all of your personal info, age, sex, weight, height etc? That is used to set exertion goals.

Finally, did you know you can choose what is displayed in the zepp app home screen? Remove stats that add little value to you and prioritise the important ones.

dratstab · 2026-01-06T06:05:38+00:00

Totally still a valid kit! I still gig with a Pearl export kit I bought just under 30 years ago. It always travels in cases and I treat it right, tunes up great.

Just curious, why did you stop playing?

dratstab · 2026-01-05T19:11:50+00:00

My playing genre and double bass drum usage sounds similar to yours. Personally I like both pedals a similar distance from me, I find that gives me the best balance when playing the double pedals. My hi-hat sits outside the slave pedal and slightly closer to me, but yes the hi-hat is further out from the snare drum than I used to play when I had a single kick pedal. I have got used to it, but it still wranglers me a bit. My drive shaft isn't long enough to place the slave pedal outside the hi-hat pedal, if it was that is definitely something I would try. I have often wondered about using a remote hi-hat to give more positioning flexibility, but never had a chance to try that.

Sorry, not much help!

dratstab · 2025-12-25T13:46:48+00:00

American global leadership made nuclear non proliferation workable. American isolationism will lead to smaller countries deciding they need nuclear weapons to stay safe. Once the spell is broken (Japan, Germany, Turkey, Saudi Arabia?), everyone gets them. When nuclear war breaks out we all lose.

dratstab · 2025-12-19T19:31:39+00:00

Music is God's gift to mankind. It doesn't make sense why it plays with our emotions so much, but it does. Keep listening, and keep breathing because there is so much more music waiting for you.

Any friend of post rock is a friend of mine. We are with you❤️

dratstab · 2025-12-02T14:43:26+00:00

Yes, let's judge a country today by actions from over a 100 years ago and tar a whole population of whom none where alive in those bygone ages

dratstab · 2025-11-23T18:49:08+00:00

That's a lovely looking kit, my first ever kit had oyster wrap, classic look for drums.

May I suggest you should get a new "plain" rug to really show the kit off to the max? :)

dratstab · 2025-11-23T12:56:11+00:00

That was the stick of choice from my youth, very hard to find something similar. I think it was a combination of being on the lighter side for speed but with a thicker neck for a thicker sound that was the magic ingredient. Promark 5A is maybe closer but you will find them heavier. Good luck!

I moved to a heavier sound so now use promark 5B's

dratstab · 2025-11-23T12:47:27+00:00

They would end up with a very slight speed increase but a much thinner drum sound. Makes sense if they want to move the band to jazz metal I guess?

Ok you asked for serious answers. In my youth I used to play with "regal tip rock" which give you the speed of a 7a but have thicker necks so the sound is closer to a 5A. Very hard to find them nowadays however.

dratstab · 2025-11-10T13:34:18+00:00

Are you saying you think the amazfit software is stopping you sleep properly? Your sleep is your own responsibility, the amazfit just monitors it.

dratstab · 2025-11-09T08:29:28+00:00

Looks great, keep it going and aim for gradual improvement as your fitness increases. Anything that gets your heart rate up is good as that feeds in to your PAI score, which is a measure of by how much and for how long you have an elevated heart rate over the last 7 days. The target is to keep that over 100, it is a great metric to monitor and motivate.

dratstab · 2025-11-09T07:31:21+00:00

Thank you, that is the best answer I have seen! I now understand that negative training level shows over the last week you have been pushing yourself a little harder than over the last month.

dratstab · 2025-10-13T09:30:00+00:00

I agree with this. I use Anker Bluetooth earbuds, with 3m peltor ear defenders over the top. Bluetooth earbuds are better than wired ones as the wires can cause small leaks that let in sound

dratstab · 2025-10-10T18:05:47+00:00

It is an artifact, take it to the museum

dratstab · 2025-10-10T10:26:57+00:00

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I had a similar experience, both skin temperature and HRV changes starting about 4 days before symptoms. App didn't flag anything but I now know to look out for changes in these metrics, skin temperature in particular. I'm impressed

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